A LITTLE girl with numerous life-limiting conditions has had a winter wonderland brought to her - made out of her own medical equipment.

Erin Sadler has kidney, liver and heart disease among other serious medical conditions.

The five-year-old has had a tough year, having had 56 blood transfusions in 52 days.

In order to make her smile this Christmas, mum Helen and Erin’s grandad Philip created a magical Lapland in their conservatory.

The wintery scene features a castle and igloos made from Erin’s medicine boxes and even a snow queen with hair made out of her feeding tubes.

Helen, 40, of Ipswich Road, Colchester, said: “Erin has had an awful time with her conditions.

“When she was born I noticed marks on her body, we were told it was neonatal acne and it would go away but it didn’t. We were then told it was Lupus.”

It was during Helen’s own medical appointment for her Lupus Erin’s condition was noticed by doctors. She was 11-months-old at the time.

During investigations she had her first birthday in Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she continues to see six specialists.

She has had neutropenic sepsis twice and after a huge haemorrhage in June 2017 it is believed she has idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

This is an auto immune disease which causes the body’s own immune system to attack and kill one of the components of blood - platelets. Helen added: “By the summer she was needing blood transfusions just to get through to the next day.

“We were having difficult conversations about how long we could keep doing that for.”

She can’t have surgery as general anaesthetic could be fatal.

Helen said: “I was told there is a probability she will not make teenage years but I’m a stubborn woman and I believe in my child.

“We will surpass expectation. We have redesigned life so she can have the best quality of life but isn’t vulnerable.”

Erin wanted to start at Highwoods Primary School this year so she can make friends.

Although she has life-limiting conditions it does not stop her having fun.

However, the family was given the opportunity to go to Lapland to meet Santa in 2016 but as Erin was too ill, she could not go.

Helen added: “I was gutted for her because you start to realise the limitations. You just want to give your children everything, so we decided to do it at home.

“The first year was just one-dimensional cut outs of ice peaks, then the next year we made igloos but this year I have made a snow queen and my dad even made her a sleigh.

“The resources we have are limited but I’m a child of the Blue Peter generation so it was all glue and sticky-back plastic.

“It’s not showroom standard but we are proud of it and it makes Erin happy.”

Erin enjoys throwing a touch of glitter into the magical conservatory whenever she goes in and loves showing the masterpiece off to her nurses.